Egyptian Phyles in the Old Kingdom: The Evolution of a System of Social OrganizationGroups of part-time workers called phyles served in mortuary cults and work crews during the Old Kingdom in Egypt. This study clarifies their attributes and functioning in these and other institutions, based on the integration of textual and archaeological evidence from the Old Kingdom and the Archaic period preceding it. The arguments suggest that phyles originated in an upper Egyptian social organization dated to the predynastic period, and that they played a more important role than is generally realized in the stability of the early Egyptian state. |
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Officials ( srw ) seem to have had a voice in the reassignment of ka - priests to
other duties : either they could order it or ... but the organization seems not to
have been formalized or mandatory since all the documents use different
phrases to ...
Officials ( srw ) seem to have had a voice in the reassignment of ka - priests to
other duties : either they could order it or ... but the organization seems not to
have been formalized or mandatory since all the documents use different
phrases to ...
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78 An earthly jar stand seems a poor counterpart to a heavenly throne ; it seems
more reasonable to equate hnt with some sort of building , as the determinative
seems to suggest . The provisioning of some place within an institution accords ...
78 An earthly jar stand seems a poor counterpart to a heavenly throne ; it seems
more reasonable to equate hnt with some sort of building , as the determinative
seems to suggest . The provisioning of some place within an institution accords ...
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Except for the dissensions during the Second Dynasty , which unfortunately are
not well documented , and the rather sudden ascent of the status of the god Re in
the early Fifth Dynasty , the period seems one of almost unnatural tranquility .
Except for the dissensions during the Second Dynasty , which unfortunately are
not well documented , and the rather sudden ascent of the status of the god Re in
the early Fifth Dynasty , the period seems one of almost unnatural tranquility .
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| Title | Egyptian Phyles in the Old Kingdom: The Evolution of a System of Social Organization Issue 48 of Studies in ancient oriental civilization, ISSN 0081-7554 |
| Author | Ann Macy Roth |
| Contributor | University of Chicago. Oriental Institute |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1991 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 21 Aug 2008 |
| ISBN | 0918986680, 9780918986689 |
| Length | 243 pages |
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